Friends from lower socioeconomic groups - are they worth the trouble?

Well I have decided to take a different approach to this post.  Instead of preaching my angry ways onto you I have decided to leave my point as an open question.  Is it worth having friends from a lower socioeconomic group or are they just too much trouble?

Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that we shouldn't mix with lower classes in the workplace or in other aspects or our lives but should we choose to have them as friends?  I am by now means rich, far from it, but I don't expect the rich to mingle with me.

You may think this is just the blabbering of a mad man but consider this.  Recently I met up with a friend who I hadn't seen for many years.  I was hoping she had married into a different social class or undergone a transformation but it wasn't to be.  She was still the same chav I knew all those years ago.  We started off with a trip to the shopping centre where I was dragged around Primark and other god awful shops.  How you can have a good conscious manufacturing a t-shirt for a pound I have no idea?  But I digress; it then came down to where we should eat.  I offered a few suggestions, a nice Japanese I knew of around the corner (reasonably priced, non offensive menu for everyone) but she assured me she knew somewhere to eat; in her words "it's proper nice".

Please tell me when the hell did Nandos become 'proper nice'?  Fucking Nandos.  I had a dry piece of chicken stuffed into a stale pitta bread with some cold chips and spicy rice.  They didn't even come around to my table to take my order, I had to queue up to order with a bunch of other idiots.  I overheard the conversation of two gold hoop earring wearing track suit wearing girls as they checked their shopping receipts:



"Hang on I think I paid too much, whats ten percent off ten pounds?"
"I think its about seven quid"
"Yeah, they charged me too much, nine quid for it."






Well that was it, I had to leave my friend in the queue whilst I wept in the bathroom over the sheer idiocy of the 'restuarants' patrons.

So, what is the answer to my question?  Well fuck it I'm bored of giving a balanced argument (as I have quite clearly demonstrated above).  They are not worth it, stick with people who don't drag you around shops where the goods are produced by slave labour and eat with people who don't think its acceptable to go to a 'proper nice' restaurant and have to queue for your food.  Call me a snob, I don't care, I know what I like so don't drag me down.